Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team (CART) is a network of British historians.
It is named after
Coleshill in Oxfordshire where
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...
had arranged for a group of soldiers, called
Auxiliary Units
The Auxiliary Units or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially-trained, highly-secret quasi military units created by the British government during the Second World War with the aim of using irregular warfare in response to a possible invasion of the U ...
, to spend their time, developing guerrilla war tactics for in the event of a
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
invasion of England during World War II. CART as it is known is the largest group in the UK researching this army and have put together a national database listing the 3,500 men.
BBC History Magazine
''BBC History Magazine'' is a British publication devoted to both British and world history and aimed at all levels of knowledge and interest. The publication releases thirteen editions a year, one per month and a Christmas special edition, an ...
, April 2011, p.14
Conservative MP
Justin Tomlinson
Justin Paul Tomlinson (born 5 November 1976) is a British Conservative Party politician and former marketing executive who served as Minister of State for Disabled People, Work and Health from 2019 to 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament ( ...
has said of CART, "I fully support CART’s mission to honour their bravery. Their vital work should remain secret no longer."
References
External links
British Resistance Archive
British historians
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